So Mike Tyson's taking it seriously, like, Yeah, who's one of those
other ones that'll knock him out, you know, like one of those other
weird celebrities like Sean Penn. I'd rather be punched by Sean Penn. Granted
it's still a punch to the face, but it's not the guy who probably
could kill you. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary
things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin and I'm Michelle. You've
heard of a wild child? Michelle? Uh huh, Yeah, of course,
I've never used the term. Honestly, I think you're more likely to
use like a wild child, like they're out of control, like they're smoking
cigarettes, staying out at night. That wild child? Is it still common?
It's common? I mean I don't know what is a wild child now
in theory? In Troubled Teen anyway, Yes, today I'm going to be
telling you about these bizarre cases of children that acted like animals and not troubled
teens. Feral children. Did you ever watch that movie? Now? No,
I don't really recommend it, but Jodie Foster plays a feral child with
a twin language yeah, Okay, I don't know if it needs to be
added to a list. It's like I think it needed to be watched at
a certain time, and that time was like nineteen ninety five. I don't
know. I'm not four or against it. Okay, maybe there's better things
with your time. Well, I mean, I found a bunch of bunch
of bunch of these cases, but I want to start off with one of
the most famous ones ever, Wild Peter. We'll start about going near Help
Benson in Hanover, northern part of Germany. Okay, way back in seventeen
twenty four. Again, I don't know what this was like, but I'm
a very acousticy, very dusty, smoky also imagine a kind of rowdy.
I don't know. Germany always gives me that vibe where like maybe it's rowdy
beer like people are excited and drunk. By the way, Hanover, this
place is near Hamelin. Yes, indeed are pied Piper of Hamelin. Uh
huh, so it's nearby anyway, Some villagers spotted this naked, brownish creature
with black hair out there in the woods, and it took them a little
bit to figure out that this thing was actually a kid. About twelve years
old. But basically they caught him and they kept seeing these strange things about
Peter, like, for example, he walked in all fours. He could
not learn the language, no matter how much they tried. The weirdest thing
is that he ate trees, not like bite off the tree, but like
he would rip off the bark and like eat the sap of it. Huh.
I don't know what animal does that, but I guess he must have
learned it from somewhere. Also, like interesting that was able to sustain him.
Yeah, apparently he also ate flowers and like things, you know,
plants and things like that. But they eventually taught him to eat vegetables and
fruits, which was kind of like his go to things. Yeah. Anyway,
he was taken to Great Britain in seventeen twenty six because they wanted to
see him and stuff like. This was kind of messed up. I imagine
it as like they wanted him as an attraction like, oh, come see
this, let's come see the fairal child that eats bark. Yeah, and
the public was going crazy about him, like they wanted to see him,
kind of like Justin Bieber in twenty ten or something. Like that definitely not
justin Bieber twenty twenty four. Yeah, and I was just like, oh,
yeah, that's Bebes. Caroline, Princess of Wales committed to taking care
of him, like she kind of took up that role of like, yeah,
I'm gonna watch out for this guy. She wanted to teach him,
you know, to speak and to tell his story, but no it didn't
work. He couldn't learn to read or write, which I try to look
up why, and it makes sense. The first five six years of your
life is when you can do all these things and watch you know, what
your parents do, and you mimic that she got a teacher to help them
figure out all this stuff. But no matter what, even the best teacher
in the world dinner work. Yeah. There's a few things about him,
like there was actually a condition called Pitt Hopkins syndrome, a condition identified only
in nineteen seventy eight, almost two hundred years after Peter's death, which are
evident in the Kirby Cupid's bow lips, his short stature, coarse curly hair,
drooping eyelids, and thick lips. Today, there's a depiction of Peter
in a large painting of King George the First's court hanging on the east wall
of the king staircase at Kensington Palace in London. Well, you know what
he did pretty well for her being I don't know, just lost in the
woods for this first twelve years of his life, you know. Yeah,
he actually lived until about seventy. Wow. His grave is just outside the
main door to the church in Saint Mary's Church in North Church. And there
was something about the heritage, some type of association like trying to make it,
you know, so that it's part of the cultural history of the area.
So in my books, he made it. This is probably one of
the most famous ones that came across. I think this one is the one
that freaked me out as a kid, because I saw a little illustration of
it in some book. When we think of people being raised by animals,
what animal do you think of? A wolf? According to an article on
useless information dot org, where we get all of our facts basically a sponsor
of this podcast, here's other story. But Reverend Joseph Singh was out on
a trip back in September of nineteen twenty. It was a missionary slash hunting
trip through the Jungles of India, and suddenly some of the locals told him
that there there were ghosts around and that one of them looked like a beast
with the body of a human, and so they asked a reverend to please
do an exorcism where the ghosts were. So he was like, all right,
I'll go, and then when he went up, he saw that it
was just a huge ant hill. These things are huge. I looked up
in Nant Hill by the way. This thing was like ten to twelve feet
tall, so it was like a little mountain and it had holes in it
and stuff, so like, there's something there, there's something there. So
they built up this little thing so they could go up to the trees and
look out to it instead of going straight up to the ant hill. And
they actually saw something move in there, like something was crawling. And then
suddenly they see a head popping out and it looked like a dog. It
was turned out to be a wolf, and then more little wolves started kind
of crawling out thinking they were safe, and then when they saw that there
was basically a hunter looking at them, this jumped out towards one of them
and was shot and died. And they say that this was the mom wolf.
As they kept looking towards the ant hill, they saw two girls like
they were probably maybe three years old and the other one six years old,
and they were covered in dust. They acted like wolves, and the two
girls were named Kamala and Amala. Okay, so these girls walked in all
fours and they kept trying to crawl back into the wild like. They kept
trying to go back. This is what they I mean, it's their life,
right, they want to go back there. They liked being awake at
night. They would pee and poop themselves like anywhere. They liked raw meat
and panted like dogs. A year later, Amala got sick, and then
Kamala got sick. All this time they were trying to teach them how to
act like civilized humans, but nothing was working, and Amala died that September.
Suppose that she was born nineteen eighteen and died in nineteen twenty one,
almost three years after she was rescued. Kamala was able to stand up,
so yeah, pretty cool, and only one hundred years later she became Vice
President of the United States. Oh Man supposedly seeing the reverend didn't want the
story to get out. Maybe he was involved in some different way, like
maybe the story didn't add up. This is my own suspicion here. He
didn't want the story out and he didn't charge for admission for people to go
see kind of like the freak show style. He was like no, but
he always accepted donations for the orphanage she ran, so he would still get
some benefit off of it. Maybe not for him directly, but they did
manage to teach Kamala a few things though, like she learned fifty words and
one of the techniques that they used was to hang her upside down to increase
her brain power. I mean, these guys weren't scientists or teachers at around
fifteen years old. In nineteen twenty nine, Kamala died and two years after
that, Reverend Singh was told to retire, basically forced to retire December of
nineteen thirty one, and since he had almost no money, one of his
superiors told him to publish what he had written about Kamala and Amala, which
he had been documented kind of through journaling, but like in the lazy way
he would get like random sheets of paper write things about it, but still
was very document is like one of the first documentations of feral child's being found
and what they tried and try to reteach them something. But still it wasn't
a scientific paper, right, it was still just a collection of thoughts,
I guess journal entries. Four years later it was published and it was just
alright, nobody really cared for it. But then this doctor Robert Zing from
the US, an anthropologist, wanted to take a hack at it, and
that's when the story was questioned. The Reverend Sing said that these girls were
nocturnal and that their eyes gave off a blue glare, that the shape of
the teeth were longer. Basically, they're like, how is that possible?
What shade was it? Do you have any documentation of it? See?
Now this is where the scientific method being good right here, because see like
for your idea, scientists versus paranormal investigator, imagine something like that. Yeah,
that'd be great. This one article from the time in the Kolkutta Statesman
told a different story about how Sing was taken to see the ant Hill after
two girls were shown to him who were living in a cage. So he
kind of ended up tying two things together. They're like, oh, by
the way, let me show you this ant hill and then they showed them
also the two girls in a cage, and then he just kind of what
a pet day he had, or he like went to a giant ant hill
and he saw two girls in a cage and apparently killed the wolf. Well,
so I have never heard in any nature documentary. I have never seen
wolves come out of an ant hill. That is bizarre to me. Yeah,
there's a lot of weird things because like some of one of his versions
of the story was like that he saved them. The other one, you
know, he was shown these two girls in a cage. There's a reason
why he didn't want to share this. Yeah, he might have just wanted
to keep a story together or just stay out of it as much as possible
after maybe figuring out that he may have lied a little bit or whatever.
Yeah, you mean he was put in charge of two random feral girls.
Yeah, there might have been something else going on in there. Yeah.
All the records that are from this story are basically from him, So he
could have just said anything. It's a tough story to believe, believe was
still creepy ass. Heck, when you think about it, I found this
article of stories that pretty much have all types of animals in here. This
case from Uganda, this villager called Millie Seba who was in search for firewood
and found a little boy with a pack of monkeys aw like Tarzan, Yeah
kind of. They actually found out who he was. It was a boy,
John Sasebuna, who was lost in nineteen eighty eight at the age of
two when his father murdered his mother and disappeared. Wow, that went somewhere
way different. That got dark. And this happened recently, like he actually
revisited the monkeys and they made this photo op where like he went back to
kind of where he was found and everything. And there's also this other case
of a gazelle boy. This anthropologist from Beasque Country was traveling alone the Spanish
Sahara which is called Ria Deoro in nineteen sixty when he met these people,
the Nomadi nomads, who told him that they had seen this boy running on
his own or whatever. He was galloping like jumping across the fields. And
he was like, well, that's weird. I want to see this where
isy, you know, And they eventually found him. The boy walked on
all fours like sometimes he would stand up and then he would keep you know,
running in all fours. When he would hear a noise, he would
do that. He was basically a gazelle. She try to catch them with
the helicopter. Uh Jesus, he was so fast. He was fast.
He was a fast kid. There was no record of him ever being taken
away from the gazelle's he was just he lived among them. This last case.
I remember seeing this in the news. Actually her name was Auxanna Malaya
born on November nineteen eighty three, and she was found when she was eight
nineteen ninety one, living with dogs. She barked and crouched like a wild
dog, sniffed her food before she ate it, and she would smell things
from like far away. She could see things like have those kind of like
instincts that dogs have. But the thing is that her parents were alcoholics and
they were unable to care for her, so they just kind of, you
know, living in the poor area, she just went out with the dogs
and in the streets and that's where she lived, in a kennel behind her
house. So it's depressing, but also like speaks to the goodness of dogs.
Also once again, where these dogs were like we'll raise your child.
Robert would clearly try to raise a newborn baby. I think there was a
whole news report thing and if you guys, if anybody out there is interested
in finding out more Alexanda Malaya, they try to do a full segment on
her and trying to meet up with her father. Again, it was awkward,
an awkward encounter. Oh, I bet they try to make a story
out of it, but there was I mean, this was the story already,
like they didn't need to expand it even more. Where did it happen?
Ukraine? Oh okay, that's what I thought. She now like she
talks about her experiences that she can, you know, she managed to learn.
I'm assuming she's a massive dog lover. She likes dogs. She actually
takes care of animals. Now, oh good. They have videos of her,
you know, walking on all fours drinking water out of a faucet,
Like I don't like seeing it. What I mean, yeah, it's an
extreme case of abuse. In two thousand and six is when they did the
they met up with her father because she was on sixty minutes and then her
father was like, oh that's my daughter or whatever. That's when they were
reunited. Wow. And this girl said, I want to see them with
my own eyes because I've been told to have no parents but actually do have
them. And then the encounter happened, and it was it was awkward.
They actually have a screenshot of the thing. Basically they're both standing for the
frame and like the caption just says, I have come. But they're standing
like awkwardly looking at each other, like yeah, of course, what are
you going to do? Hug them the people that abandoned you to dog?
Yeah, like no. The first time I read about this, I was
amazed because I used to think of how would it be to like live out
in the woods or like how by a river? And I know I grew
up on Tarzan and like the Jungle Book, uh huh. I want to
be raised by Blue the bear and that I think the panther's a good guy
in that right, I don't remember or like like you know, have a
brother that's a monkey named Cheetah like in Tarzan. For me, I think
thinking of Pokemon and being out in the wild with a backpack just starting fires
and like you know, campfires and sleeping out in the woods and figuring out
on your own was really cool. And plus I used to have a bunch
of like fishing magazines that I would take from the dentist because they had a
stack of them that they're just say, yeah, take them. Because I
was so into it. It was all into outdoors and stuff and I was
like, this is kind of cool. It creeped me out when I saw
that there might be kids out there or children that are from the woods.
Like that got me. I would say, if being a wild child is
a choice, being a feral child is not a choice. Yeah, those
children did not pick to be raised by whatever animal took them in. But
thankfully an animal did take them in for some reason. I've seen videos of
animals, you know, like the National Geographic documentaries. Whatever we see like
a tiger not eating a baby monkey, for example, they just kind of
let them be. You know, it happens sometimes if you're fostering animals or
too. You know, like if an animal's just given birth and then like
another baby animal kind of appears, the hormones will mix and so like you
know, when a gorilla doesn't smash a baby that's like fallen into a into
a you know it's cage and a zoo or all of a sudden a cat's
taking care of a duck or a rat or something like that. You know,
like there's things where it's like hormones kick in and it's like, oh
yeah, Like it makes sense that like if a little child stumbled upon like
an animal that had just you know, at the right time, it would
see it as it's child. I guess we kind of do that with dogs,
right. Oh yeah, my son Roberts just emerged from the womb or
wherever he was. I don't know where he was. Well, guys,
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